Inside the Food Factory

Family Meals

Most of our favorite comfort foods, from frozen pizzas and fish sticks to baked beans and sausages, will travel through as many as 30 different machines before they find their way to your cupboard, fridge, or freezer. But how exactly is a fish stick flash frozen? And are beans cooked and then canned or canned and then cooked? And how do eggs get separated on an industrial scale? Follow host Gregg Wallace as he travels the food factories of Europe to explore the wild and wonderful technology behind the family meal staples we all enjoy.